English to Afrikaans Meaning :: pariah

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Noun(1) a person who is rejected (from society or home

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(1) There's no end to the advantages of being an international pariah .(2) Spring allergies will be mistaken for deathly disease and your runny nose will make you a social pariah .(3) He was a pariah in the international community.(4) By today's standards, the Roman Empire would be an international pariah .(5) The regime should be treated as a pariah , not just as a hostile but recognizable political competitor.(6) Eventually, she turned her back on society, becoming the social pariah that she is now.(7) Racist jokes that would make one a social pariah in the United States are told boldly on television.(8) Such extreme views, however, have not made him a social pariah .(9) So now I'm not only a big fatty, I'm also a social pariah , am I?(10) In the past, smoking was fashionable and a status symbol, but today smokers are the social pariahs in many environments, particularly from increasing numbers of non-smokers.(11) Billboards are also telling people to give up now before they become social pariahs on March 29, the day the prohibition comes into effect.(12) Advocates are most unlikely to tell the public who will be worse off, except when they are trying to make political pariahs of the sufferers.(13) A few dozen of these political pariahs found employment, mostly in second-rate TV offerings where they were less likely to be spotted either by appearance or writing style.(14) They have since been treated as the pariahs of the political establishment.(15) So everyone - or nearly everyone - makes sure to bring someone along as a security blanket, so they don't look like social pariahs .(16) Australians do not, I am sure, actively desire to be international pariahs .

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Noun

1. outcast ::

uitgeworpene

2. persona non grata ::

persona non grata

3. leper ::

melaatse

4. undesirable ::

ongewenste

5. unperson ::

unperson

6. nonperson ::

nonperson

7. black sheep ::

swart skaap

8. red-headed stepchild ::

-Rooi onder leiding stiefkind

Different Forms

pariah, pariahs

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